Legal Opinion
Solid Waste Agency v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 26, 1996No. 95-3324PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The Village of Bartlett, in Cook County, Illinois, and a group of Bartlett residents that calls itself “Citizens Against the Bale-fill,” appeal from the denial of their motion to intervene in a suit brought by a joint venture of 23 Cook County municipalities known as the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County. 163 F.R.D. 268 (N.D.Ill.1995). SWANCC wants to build a landfill on a wooded and watery 533-acre site adjacent to Bartlett. The landfill would occupy 182 of these acres, centered on an abandoned gravel pit in which the nonhazardous wastes of SWANCC’s members would…
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